Galaxy Community Building

Jekyll 2026-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/feed.xml Galaxy Community Building Recently added tutorials, slides, FAQs, and events in the community topic https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/assets/images/GTN-60px.png 📰 Galaxy Training Academy 2026 Meet the Experts https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2026/05/11/gta-meet-experts.html 2026-05-11T00:00:00+00:00

New for Galaxy Training Academy 2026: Meet the Experts

Scott Cain https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/scottcain/ 📰 BioNT Brings Galaxy Training to German, Spanish, and Italian Learners https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2026/04/01/biont.html 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

We are thrilled to announce that the BioNT project (Bio Network for Training)

Helena Vela https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hvelab/ Lisanna Paladin https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/lisanna/ Alan O'Cais https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/ocaisa/ Daniela Schneider https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/Sch-Da/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Silvia Di Giorgio https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/silviadg87/ Teresa Müller https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/teresa-m/ Till Sauerwein https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/Tillsa/ Renato Alves https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/unode/ 📰 Save the date: The Galaxy Training Academy 2026 will happen from May 18th to May 22th https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2025/11/13/gta-date-2026.html 2025-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

🎉 We are excited to share that the Galaxy Training Academy (GTA) 2026 will take place next year, starting on 18 May 2026! 🎉

Teresa Müller https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/teresa-m/ Delphine Lariviere https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/delphine-l/ 📚 Creation of the labs in the different Galaxy instances for your community https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/community-lab/tutorial.html 2025-10-04T17:50:22+00:00

The Community lab, a centralised webpage that enables communities to rapidly aggregate, curate, integrate, display, and launch relevant tools, workflows, and training on different Galaxy servers. This user-friendly interface, built on the Galaxy framework, provides community members with data analysis capacity without requiring programming expertise. Users can run individual tools or create complex workflows, with full provenance tracking to ensure reproducibility, designed specifically for the community research (Nasr et al., 2024).

Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Paul Zierep https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/paulzierep/ Solenne Correard https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/scorreard/ Keiler Collier https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/BirdmanRidesAgain/ Martin Carrere https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/martincarrere/ Björn Grüning https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bgruening/ Marie Josse https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/Marie59/ Solenne Correard https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/scorreard/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Marisa Loach https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/MarisaJL/ 🛤️ Creation of a Community CoDex and lab (and optionally of a Special Interest Group (SIG)) https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/learning-pathways/sig-and-codex-creation.html 2025-09-17T10:10:23+00:00

The Galaxy Communities Dock or **Galaxy CoDex** is a centralized repository that ensures the versioning and documentation of the community components (Batut et al., 2024; Nasr et al., 2024). The codex is composed of : - A **GitHub repository** specific to each community with curated lists of tools, workflows and tutorials relevant to the community. *For example : [The curated resources (tools, workflows, tutorials) for the microgalaxy codex](https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy_codex/tree/main/communities/microgalaxy/resources).* - The **Community lab**, a centralised webpage that enables communities to rapidly aggregate, curate, integrate, display, and launch relevant tools, workflows, and training on different Galaxy servers. This user-friendly interface, built on the Galaxy framework, provides community members with data analysis capacity without requiring programming expertise. Users can run individual tools or create complex workflows, with full provenance tracking to ensure reproducibility, designed specifically for the community research (Nasr et al., 2024). *For example, [the microgalaxy lab (Europe)](https://microbiology.usegalaxy.eu/).* The **Special Interest Group (SIG)** refers to a dedicated scientific community that crosses individual lab boundaries and wants to collaborate, share resources, support each other, and/or collectively advocate on a given theme. We have SIGs based on region, domain of science, and more. You might consider that a SIG covers any group of like-minded Galaxy enthusiasts not currently combined into a Working Group. Here is the list of [currently existing SIGs](https://galaxyproject.org/community/sig/) and the [microgalaxy community of practice webpage](https://galaxyproject.org/community/sig/microbial#microgalaxy-community) For more information, see: {% cite codex-gcc %} and {% cite nasr2024 %}. **Description of the learning pathway:** - Module 1 : The creation of a community CoDex (including the lab interface). Generation of the CoDex includes the generation of three tables : A tool table, a tutorial table and a workflow table. - Module 2: Creation a Special Interest Group (SIG) page (optional).

❓ What is a Codex? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/create_codex.html 2025-09-17T10:10:23+00:00

The Galaxy Communities Dock or Galaxy CoDex is a centralized repository that ensures the versioning and documentation of the community components (Batut et al., 2024; NASR et al., 2025).

Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Solenne Correard https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/scorreard/ 📚 Creation of a Galaxy tutorial table for your community https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/community-tutorial-table/tutorial.html 2025-09-17T10:10:23+00:00

Similarly to the numerous tools available on Galaxy, the Galaxy Training Network includes numerous tutorials. This tutorial will take you through the steps to generate resources listing all the relevant tutorials and display the tutorial table on your community codex page.

Similarly to the numerous tools available on Galaxy, numerous workflow are available on public Galaxy instances and in Workflow Hub. This tutorail will take you through the steps to generate resources listing the relevant workflows and how to display them on your community codex page.

🎉 We are excited to announce that we have started planning the Galaxy Training Academy (GTA) 2026! 🎉

Teresa Müller https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/teresa-m/ Delphine Lariviere https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/delphine-l/ 📰 Galaxy Training Academy 2025: round two of our GTN education party! https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2025/07/17/gta-overview.html 2025-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

The Galaxy Training Academy 2025 trained researchers in Galaxy data analysis world wide across a variety of scientific topics.

Teresa Müller https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/teresa-m/ Delphine Lariviere https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/delphine-l/ ❓ How do I add a news feed to a Matrix channel? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/matrix_news_bot.html 2024-12-20T15:53:14+00:00

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ ❓ How do I find the Maintainer Home pages? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/maintainer_home.html 2024-12-20T10:04:14+00:00

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ ❓ How do I find the Community Home pages? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/community_home.html 2024-12-20T10:04:14+00:00

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ ❓ How can I add my SIG meetings to the Galaxy Community Activities calendar? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/community_activites_calendar.html 2024-12-20T10:04:14+00:00

Add the following guest to all of your Google Calendar meeting events: 8a762890fbe724e9d29b67915aa0197a352642f94b22ec64a85430daaf1abb5e@group.calendar.google.com

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ 📚 Creating community content https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/community_content/tutorial.html 2024-12-20T10:04:14+00:00

Galaxy Special Interest Group (SIG)s work hard to build and maintain training resources. The GTN has worked hard to acknowledge this and offer nice impact pages to communities.

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ 📰 GTN's Gift for 2024 https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/12/19/community_page.html 2024-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

Community Pages

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ 📰 Organizing GTA2025: Give us feedback and your availability! https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/12/17/gta-feedback.html 2024-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Give us feedback and your availability for the GTA 2025

Teresa Müller https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/teresa-m/ ❓ How do I add my community to the Galaxy CoDex? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/codex.html 2024-12-05T12:48:07+00:00

You need to create a new folder in the data/community folder within Galaxy Codex code source.

Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ 🛤️ Tool development for a nice & shiny subdomain https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/learning-pathways/dev_tools_training.html 2024-12-04T09:59:04+00:00

Discover Galaxy's communities and learn how to create your subdomain and enrich it by writing, testing and submiting your tools on Galaxy. This learning pathway will guide you through all the steps required to build a tool for Galaxy with Planemo for batch tools and how write an interactive tool.

📚 Make your tools available on your subdomain https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/tools_subdomains/tutorial.html 2024-12-03T12:15:24+00:00

This tutorial explains how to make your brand new tools, once they’re published through a Pull Request (check this tutorial on how to build your tool from scracth), visible on your subdomain. Here we’ll follow the example on how to make the tools visible on Galaxy for earth System. You can also find the explanations on how to add your tools on this Github page.

Marie Josse https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/Marie59/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Marie Josse https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/Marie59/ Björn Grüning https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bgruening/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ 📰 Credit where it's due: GTN Reviewers in the spotlight https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/12/02/reviewing.html 2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

We would like to recognise and thank all of the reviewers who have contributed to the GTN tutorials; your efforts are greatly appreciated, and we are grateful for your contributions to the GTN community. Today, we are highlighting your efforts on every single learning material across the GTN.

Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ 📚 Create a subdomain for your community on UseGalaxy.eu https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/admin/tutorials/subdomain/tutorial.html 2024-11-27T11:57:56+00:00

This tutorial covers how to set up a subdomain on usegalaxy.eu. We will take here the example of the earth system subdomain and follow the step one by one.

Marie Josse https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/Marie59/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Mira Kuntz https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/mira-miracoli/ Marie Josse https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/Marie59/ Björn Grüning https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bgruening/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ ❓ How can I plan meetings across timezones? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/meeting_times.html 2024-07-08T19:34:34+00:00

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ ❓ What is the Galaxy Governance Structure? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/governance_structure.html 2024-07-08T19:34:34+00:00

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ ❓ How do I join the Galaxy Community Board? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/governance_gcb_join.html 2024-07-08T19:34:34+00:00

SIG representatives should join our:

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ ❓ What's the Galaxy Community Board? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/faqs/governance_gcb.html 2024-07-08T19:34:34+00:00

The Galaxy Community Board provides a supportive virtual forum for the exchange of ideas, and a governance body to represent Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in Galaxy.

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ 📚 What's a Special Interest Group? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/sig_define/tutorial.html 2024-07-08T19:34:34+00:00

In Galaxy, the term Special Interest Group (SIG) refers to a dedicated scientific community that crosses individual lab boundaries and wants to collaborate, share resources, support each other, and/or collectively advocate on a given theme. We have SIGs based on region, domain of science, and more. You might consider that a SIG covers any group of like-minded Galaxy enthusiasts not currently combined into a Working Group.

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Delphine Lariviere https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/delphine-l/ 📚 Creating a Special Interest Group https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/sig_create/tutorial.html 2024-07-08T19:34:34+00:00

So you have decided to create a new Special Interest Group (SIG)!

Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Delphine Lariviere https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/delphine-l/ 📰 GTN Video Library 2.0: 107 hours of learning across 154 videos https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/06/14/gtn-video-library.html 2024-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

Many GTN tutorials already have recordings. These recordings were made by members of the community for a variety of (online) training events.

Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ 📰 Celebrating the Milestone: 400 Tutorials on the Galaxy Training Network! https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/06/06/400-tutorials-milestone.html 2024-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

The Galaxy Training Network (GTN) has reached an exciting milestone: our 400th tutorial! This achievement is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our community of educators, researchers, and developers over the last 9 years.

Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ 📰 Introducing GTN Event Pages https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/05/22/introducing-gtn-event-pages.html 2024-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

Are you organizing a training event using GTN materials? You can now add your event directly to the GTN!

Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ 📚 Creation of resources listing all the tools and their metadata relevant to your community https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/community-tool-table/tutorial.html 2024-03-13T15:41:48+00:00

Galaxy offers thousands of tools. They are developed across various GitHub repositories. Furthermore, Galaxy also embraces the granular implementation of software tools as sub-modules. In practice, this means that tool suites are separated into Galaxy tools, also known as wrappers, that capture their component operations. Some key examples of suites include Mothur and OpenMS, which translate to tens and even hundreds of Galaxy tools.

Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Paul Zierep https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/paulzierep/ Solenne Correard https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/scorreard/ Keiler Collier https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/BirdmanRidesAgain/ Martin Carrere https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/martincarrere/ Saskia Hiltemann https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/ Bérénice Batut https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bebatut/ Paul Zierep https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/paulzierep/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Johan Gustafsson https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/supernord/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Solenne Correard https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/scorreard/ Keiler Collier https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/BirdmanRidesAgain/ Björn Grüning https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/bgruening/ Marie Josse https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/Marie59/ Marisa Loach https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/MarisaJL/ 📰 GTN in Discourse https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/01/30/oembed-testing.html 2024-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Howdy teachers and support staff! We are exploring displaying GTN content directly in the Galaxy Help site, furthering the integration between the GTN and the Galaxy community infrastructure.

Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Jennifer Hillman-Jackson https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/jennaj/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Martin Čech https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/martenson/ Jennifer Hillman-Jackson https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/jennaj/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ 📰 Simplified GTN News submission via Google Form https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2024/01/29/simplified-gtn-news-submission-via-google-form.html 2024-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Based on user feedback of the difficulties of the GTN news submission process we have significantly simplified and removed the need for manually editing a YAML file by providing a quick and easy Google Form

Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ 📰 New Feature: Embeddable GTN Tutorial Lists and UseGalaxy Workflow List Widgets https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2023/10/05/wendi.html 2023-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

We at the GTN strive to bring you the most fun and fancy features we can in a completely static site! Today we’re addressing the question of Wendi Bacon who needed a solution for keeping her single cell subdomain up-to-date with all the latest happenings in the Single Cell world.

Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/ Wendi Bacon https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nomadscientist/ 🛤️ Train the Trainers https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/learning-pathways/train-the-trainers.html 2023-05-17T12:45:57+00:00

This pathway introduces trainers to learning principles, training techniques, lesson, session, course, and material design as well as assessment and feedback. This is has been developed for by trainers in the bioinformatics but is suitable for all trainers and educators in higher education.

📰 What are the most used tools in the GTN? https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2023/02/08/top-tools.html 2023-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Did you ever wonder which was the number one most used tool in the GTN? There is a new page of Top Tools where we list all of the top tools in the GTN, and which tutorials use them. We guessed “upload1”, but it seems like not every author annotates that step explicitly in their tutorial, and of course it doesn’t appear in the workflows which we also scan to create this tool listing.

Helena Rasche https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/hexylena/